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I read the title, and I thought I knew what the main ideas of the article would be. And then I read the article, and I have no idea what this is supposed to be about.

Anyone smarter than me mind fleshing out just a little bit of context?

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If you build out a layered system with reusable components you're better off. But if you forget about that and create a precious gem of a script for your Docker deployment that can't be used anywhere else, you may be losing out (if you need to do anything besides use Docker). If Docker is all you need, you're fine. If you need to deploy anywhere else, you end up with multiple precious gem scripts that duplicate effort and maybe miss elements (creating subtle differences and incompatibilities between the multiple deployments).

Unix philosophy, DRY.

Thanks for the summary. I read the article and to me this is more about creating appropriate abstractions than automation.

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